One Born Every Minute ?

[rene123]

Interesting tale, cpofc, Manila sounds like a fascinating place. Sometimes I kind of wish I was a man. You guys get into all sorts of crazy situations. Life must be one adventure after another.

[kennedy]

Interesting tale, cpofc, Manila sounds like a fascinating place. Sometimes I kind of wish I was a man. You guys get into all sorts of crazy situations. Life must be one adventure after another.

Typical sailor story. I wish I had a nickle for every one I've heard.

[Kudel]

Interesting tale, cpofc, Manila sounds like a fascinating place. Sometimes I kind of wish I was a man. You guys get into all sorts of crazy situations. Life must be one adventure after another.

The first stories of the kingdom of siam in western history was done by portugese missionaries ,apparently they new alot about ladies of ill repute and opium .sex ,and drugs but without the rock and roll.

And also the voc.the dutch indies company wich where nothing else than a bunch of drug/opium runners.

Don't you people read books ,al this can be found on the net you now and a much beter read then i got done over by a bargirl on the stickmansite.

[Kudel]

The first mug I ever met.

Sex Tourism as we know it today. Where it all started in SE Asia. Philippines. Mail Order Brides.

Only a couple of years into Martial Law and Marcos' Kilusan Bagong Lipunan, 'The New Society'. Marcos was actively promoting tourism, declaring the PI was now 'safe'. Even though the Martial Law and the Nationwide Curfew were in effect. (SEP 72)

Prior to the opening up of Ermita in the mid 70s Pasay (Peso) City was where the bars and cat houses were located. Old, shabby, dirty, smally, run down wooden structures, where all firearms and lethal weapons were to be checked at the door.

Then by 1974 the shutters came off the windows and doors, and bars began springing up throughout the Ermita Area, namely Mabini and M H Del Pilar Streets. I was just 21 YO at this time. and had been visiting the PI since I was 16.

Manila, PI XMAS 1975. One evening in 1975 just before XMAS my 3 mates and I walked into the 'Spider's Web' Bar. There sitting on a stool at the bar was an 'Old Man'. An Australian. His name was Doug Mason, a cashed up Real Estate Business owner from Sydney's affluent North Shore. He was in his early 50's. This was pretty unique. You didn't come across blokes like this in a place like this. Naturally there were some older American 'Veterans' kicking around but not blokes like Doug Mason. In fact he was only on a brief stopover from Hong Kong to Australia.

Sitting on Doug's lap, at the bar was a 19 YO Filippina by the name of Mary-Lou. Doug was smitten. It really was Xmas. In the days where flights were fewer and it was difficult and punative to alter your flight itinerary Doug managed to get a doctor's certficate declaring he was ill and unable to travel. So Doug extended his stay in Manila. Deeply in love with Mary-Lou.

He returned to Sydney in the New Year, told his wife and two teenage sons he was leaving them - and the business and moving to Manila. Christmas Night 1976, Spider's Web Bar. My mates and I walked in. Doug was sitting on a stool at the bar. Head in hands. Mary-Lou was standing behind him screaming obscenities at him in Tagalog, kicking him up the arse and slapping the back of his head as she did so. Humiliating him. Abusing him. He looked 10 years older. Broken.

I immediately lunged for her and grabbed her around the throat and pinned her against the wall. I was furious. My mates pulled me away. I sat down with Doug and wanted to know why he was allowing this to happen. But really, we all knew why. The furry magnet.

The following year he purchased Trixie's Bar (formerly owned by an Australian woman married to a Filippino, another rare occurrence at the time). Tourism was still getting underway at this time, so Doug found himself with a bar, filled nightly with relatives and the extended family of the bride, Mary Lou. He finshed up with a bar full of cheap watches and other trinkets as payment from the Filippinos who availed themselves of his hospitality and alcohol. Of course the bar went broke and they moved out to a house Doug bought in Paranaque. I went out there for a party, but my relationship with Mary Lou was never that good after that night I hauled her off him.

Later that year my mate pulled into Manila serving in an Australian Warship. He walked up to the Waltzing Matilda Bar. There, employed as the 'Day Manager' was Doug. 300 Pesos per day, plus all you could drink. Playing host to the increasing numbers of Sex Tourists from Australia. he was a broken man. As he related to my mate. In a fight with Mary-Lou he had smacked her girlfriend over with head with an ash tray. She had taken his passport and headed to the Police Station and had him charged with assault, He was now on, what the Filippinos called 'Legal Hold', not allowed to leave the country, whilst they milked him dry.

He was desperate and asked my mate to smuggle him onboard his ship and get him out of there. Naturally my mate said now way could he do that. besides they were off to HK after Manila, not going back to Oz for months yet, Doug didn't care. HK was OK by him. Just get me out of the PI. It was a no can do. My mate refused.

I never saw Doug again after that. Although I did hear he made it back to Aust. After losing everything he had and those he loved.

I watched Ermita grow until it became the Sex Capital and Party town of SE Asia. Farang owned bars and businesses proliferated at lightning speed. I remember one night standing outside the Spiders Web, with my good friend, 'Boy' Mecado, the Night Manager of the group of three bars - Eagles Nest, Spiders Web and China Coast. Looking up and down the now busy M H Del Pilar Street. Boy turned to me and said. Look at all these foreigners, they come here and buy up everything and treat us like dirt. One day when the Filippino people want it back, we will take it back. And a decade or so later, along with Mayor Lim - They did.

We used to reckon that a mug got off the plane every minute in Manila. Not a lot has changed since then really. it's just gone digital.

i think the japanese now a lot more than you about chagging /raping the local females during the second world war when marcos was a wee young lad .

Nice could be a stickmanbangkok submission but.......

I remeber when marcos had to flee the country with his emelda but she had a nice shoe collection she had to leave behind most fashion designers and models in europe would want a shoe collection like that and most of the people in that country where eating of of the garbage dumps outside of manila and the catholic church ,and american missionaries really destroyed that country and helped to stay marcos in power for many years against communism in that region.

Tut tut, get your history right if your going to be pulling up other members, before the Japanese came the Americans, who had a whale of a time banging the Pinoy princesses whether they liked it or not.

They weren't the first. You'll find that cpofc has a greater grasp on the history of the region than you could ever start to comprehend.

Anyway, it's a pathetic thread. There's people getting conned like this all over the world, and there's even reports of Thais falling for it too. So what's the big news of the day?

Some people are gullible.

Whoop de whoo.

So go back to the pub section then ,to that sleazy hotelroom with rat and mercedes girl .

What an intresting topic that was.